Netflix debuts 'Atypical,' family sitcom featuring teen with autism

What's new for home viewing on video-on-demand and Netflix, Amazon Prime and other streaming services.

The Netflix original half-hour dramedy "Atypical: Season 1" adds a new family to the sitcom world, this one with Keir Gilchrist as a high schooler on the autism spectrum struggling to navigate the social cues and emotional turbulence he doesn't quite understand. Jennifer Jason Leigh and Michael Rapaport play his parents. Eight episodes.

Also debuting on Netflix: the feature comedy "Naked" (not rated), with Marlon Wayans reliving a nightmarish wedding day on a repeating loop, and BBC comedy series "White Gold," starring Ed Westwick and Joe Thomas as cutthroat window salesmen in 1980s Essex (six episodes).

Available before theaters is the young-adult romantic fantasy "Fallen" (PG-13). Available same day as select theaters nationwide is "Pilgrimage" (not rated), a medieval road movie about monks escorting holy relics from Ireland to Rome, and shark-infested Australian thriller "Open Water 3: Cage Dive" (not rated).

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Disney Channel star Shia LeBeouf broke into movies with "Holes" (2003, PG), the family-friendly adaptation of the award-winning young adult novel. It's a fitting late-summer film for kids.

The romantic drama "The Ticket" (2016, not rated) stars Dan Stevens as a blind man who regains his vision but loses his way when he throws himself into his work.

Also new: From Britain comes the black comedy "Barney Thomson" with Robert Carlyle and Emma Thompson (2016, not rated, with gruesome violence), classic comedy "The Smallest Show on Earth" (1957, not rated) with Peter Sellers and Margaret Rutherford, and historical miniseries "To the Ends of the Earth" (2005) with Benedict Cumberbatch.

Foreign affairs: "After the Storm" (Japan, 2017, not rated, with subtitles) transforms from dysfunctional comedy about a fractured family to a touching drama of redemption.

Arriving Saturday night is the Harry Potter spinoff/prequel "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" (2016, PG-13), which sends British magic scholar Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to 1920s New York and unleashes magical creatures into the human world.

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"Hell or High Water" (2016, R) puts the great American antihero outlaw story into the modern world of financial crisis and mortgage foreclosure. Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster star.

Debuting on Criterion Channel is "Tampopo" (Japan, 1985, not rated, with subtitles), the inventive foodie comedy that billed itself as "a Japanese noodle western."

New on FilmStruck are John Huston's classic "The Man Who Would Be King" (1975, PG) with Sean Connery and Michael Caine, and a collection of films about life in Tel Aviv, including the acclaimed dramas "For My Father" (Israel, 2008) and "Or (My Treasure)" (Israel, 2004, not rated, with subtitles).

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"Snatched," "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword," "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul," "The Dinner," "The Exception"